The Gospel according to Luke is perhaps the best story in the New Testament, and it is among the best stories in all of Scripture. As a literary work, it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the greatest works of world literature.

Of all the writings in the New Testament, John is the most subtle and multi-layered, moving us into profoundly intimate moments with Jesus and his disciples. In it we see Jesus through the eyes of an old man remembering precious moments from long ago, moments shaped through decades of reflection. In John, we probe the very depths of who Jesus is.

The combined work, the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, is perhaps the best story in the New Testament, and it is among the best stories in all of Scripture. As a literary work, it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the greatest works of world literature. The Acts of the Apostles witnesses the “birth of the church,” and it introduces us to a cast of characters, including St. Paul, who begins as the great persecutor of the church and becomes one of the greatest of saints. It is a thrilling story!

St. Paul’s epistle to the church at Rome—or Romans—is the most important of all Paul’s epistles and letters, and for Christians it is arguably the most important book in the entire Bible.

St. Paul arrived in Corinth sometime in late A.D. 50, the last stop on his 2nd missionary journey (A.D. 50-52). When Paul walked the 52-mile trek from Athens to Corinth, he entered one of the greatest and most modern cities of the Roman Empire.

After his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, St. Paul worked tirelessly as the Apostle to the Gentiles, traveling for over a decade (A.D. 46-60) more than 10,000 miles by sea and land on three missionary journeys throughout Asia Minor and the Mediterranean world.

After his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, St. Paul worked tirelessly as the Apostle to the Gentiles, traveling for over a decade (A.D. 46-60) more than 10,000 miles by sea and land on three missionary journeys throughout Asia Minor and the Mediterranean world. By the end of St. Paul’s third missionary journey to Ephesus, Luke writes that “all the inhabitants of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and Greeks alike” (Acts 19: 10). Indeed, during that time, St. Paul evangelized all of Asia Minor, a good portion of southern Europe and he wrote thirteen of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.

Once thought to have been written by Paul, Hebrews is in fact written by one of Paul’s inner circle prior to A.D. 70, but no one knows exactly who. Addressed to Jewish Christians, our author examines several key issues from a Jewish perspective, drawing heavily upon the Torah for his support. Hebrews draws deeply on the Hebrew Scriptures, seeing Christ on every page.

Revelation is the final book in the Christian canon and the concluding narrative in the story of redemption. No other book in the Bible seems so cryptic as Revelation, no other book so extravagant in its symbolism and wild visions, and no other book so given to misreading and misinterpretation.